| 1 | Petru Dragoescu | ROM | 1:47,21 | Q |
| 2 | Leonid Masunov | URS | 1:47,52 | Q |
| 3 | Benjamin Gonzales | ESP | 1:47,55 | Q |
| 4 | Marco Mayr | SUI | 1:48,50 | |
| 5 | Thierry Tonnellier | FRA | 1:50,13 | |
| 6 | Herwig Tavernaro | AUT | 1:53,61 |
| 1 | Robert Harrison | GBR | 1:47,72 | Q |
| 2 | Axel Harries | FRG | 1:47,84 | Q |
| 3 | Viktor Kalinkin | URS | 1:48,38 | Q |
| 4 | Coloman Trabado | ESP | 1:49,08 | |
| 5 | Slobodan Popovic | YUG | 1:51,35 | |
| Christoph Ulmer | SUI | DNS |